Catherine Brown

@Catherineb201
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Work in the civic square IRL and want to be able to commune with people through social media too…. Care about #humanrights, #equality and #diversity, #wales / #cymru, #ageing, #animalrights, #socialjustice. I chair the UK Enforcement conduct board, and the internet watch foundation but all views expressed here are entirely my own…
If you think humanity's doomed, a reminder from UNICEF:
- Since 1990, annual under-five child mortality has declined by 60%.
- Since 2000, the number of children with stunting has declined by 40%.
- Safe water is available to 2.1 billion more people than 20 years ago.
https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/10-ways-investing-childrens-well-being-changed-world
Two of the journalists killed by Israel today have been identified:

"I've obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the ppl it'd booked into #detention FACs this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all.⚡<7% have violent convictions. Most: for IMM, traffic, & vice offenses.

Every time you hear #DHS say: anyone who objects to #ICE's mass deportation campaign is pro-violent felons, understand:🚨those violent convicts <7% of its work for this yr. It's misleading the public..."
-D Bier
#Immigrants #Deportations #USPol
https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-no-convictions-93-no-violent-convictions

"If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace." -- Donald Trump, 11/1/24

Pay attention. This is getting lost in the shuffle.

Via ‪James Fallows‬:

This is appalling in principle—and shocking in detail, if you Zoom in on specific parcels offered for rush sale.

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/media-resources/250-million-acres-public-lands-eligible-sale-senr-budget-reconciliation-package

Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains

Air pollution in Paris before and after they added bike lanes and put restrictions on cars.

I will never understand people needing to drive cars in large cities like Paris.

EDIT: Source
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/
https://www.airparif.fr/bilan/2025/bilan-de-la-qualite-de-lair-ile-de-france-2024
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

The Washington Post
Gaza: Latest Israeli Plan Inches Closer to Extermination

The Israeli government’s plan to demolish what remains of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and concentrate the Palestinian population into a tiny area would amount to an abhorrent escalation of its ongoing crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and acts of genocide.

Human Rights Watch
“We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again.” A 98-year-old WWII veteran demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. (Love the replays from several camera angles.) https://kottke.org/25/05/wwii-vet-crushes-a-tesla-with-a-sherman-tank
WWII Vet Crushes a Tesla With a Sherman Tank

In this video, 98-year-old British WWII veteran Ken Turner demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. Here’s what Turner had

kottke.org
Sometimes you see an image so striking that you have to state plainly that there are concentration camps inside the US with kidnapped people in them suffering